Bob and Gail's Next Adventure: Days 60-61- Historic Homes & Churches

Current Position: 38° 34' 32" N 76° 04' 44" W

There was a mass exodus from Solomons this morning! The weather was perfect so Loopers are on the move :) Chesapeake Bay was so nice and smooth for us and full of interesting things to see.

Lots of boats...

Lighthouse...

An offshore liquid natural gas loading structure...

And some SERIOUS fisherman!

Coming into Cambridge we see this beautiful bridge

And a fairly large cruise ship!

We arrived at Cambridge about 2:00. Our friends on a tiny 22' C-Dory beat us there and helped us tie up at the town free dock. This is Jonathan's third trip on the loop. Salty is so tiny that they go into places us bigger boats can only dream of. Of course you sacrifice a lot of comfort :)

Cambridge is filled with lots of historic buildings even though it's had several fires over the years.

Christ Church is such a beautiful building with a cemetery from the 1700's! We were so disappointed that the church was not open as there is a Tiffany stained glass window in the sanctuary.

These pillars are PINK!

The graveyard had more unusual gravestones...

Revolutionary war and The War of 1812 and some who fought in both! (The middle grave)

One of the oldest graves we saw 1795

Harriet Tubman lived here after she escaped from slavery and proceeded to work the Underground Railroad to rescue her family and friends. She was quite the woman and wore many hats during her long life. This stone is one of her many descendants.

There were so many pretty steeples and roof tops I had to take their pictures:

Christ Church

Private home

The detail of the above tower

Private home

City Hall

Another church

Here is the whole church

Downtown is sadly a dying town. They are trying to bring it back to it's former glory but 1 of every 2 store fronts are empty.

Here is one that is being rebuilt almost from the ground up - only the facade will remain.

Does this store front bring back any memories? See the answer below to see if you are right.

There were so many gorgeous homes, I've chosen my favorites:

This is the one with the tower shown above. It was built as a private residence although it is now a funeral parlor. The finest Queen Anne style in Cambridge, its owner was a watchmaker, jeweler, land speculator, and developer.

This one didn't have a write up but I loved it just the same.

This home was built by one of the founders of the Phillips Packing Company in 1902. It has 21 rooms and 7 fireplaces. He was friends with Antarctic Explorer Admiral Richard Byrd and the Phillips Packing Company supplied the canned food for his polar expeditions.

And this was his brother's across the street with 22 rooms and 8 fireplaces!

This was the prettiest lavender - didn't show up well in the picture.

Here's one being renovated.

The columns on this one were exquisite. See the next picture.

This little house was set between the big ones. Turns out it was against the law to practice law from your home -- you had to have a law offices in a separate building.